Addressing the growing need for transit alternatives, Bikestation is working to change the way people travel by offering secure bicycle parking and bicycle rentals. When we were approached by this client, they had already selected Storefront 5.0 to process their membership subscriptions and other fees. However, they needed someone who was familiar with the inner-workings of Storefront, and who could turn around their project on a narrow timeline.

Member Registration The first requirement was to provide a means by which new members could purchase services. With locations in Seattle and Long Beach, and a variety of options as to the service offerings that may be purchased, we created a "registration wizard". As one selects a location, followed by service plan and other options, the registrant comes to the end of the avalable selections. Clicking "finish", the program places all of the appropriate products into the shopping cart. This feature is an innovation in the way that Storefront is implemented. The checkout process has also been revised, prompting for a few new fields, and writing to some custom database tables.

Member Login To accomodate the needs of current members to review their accounts, and purchase additional usage, we built a series of pages which are only observable by logging in with e-mail address and password. In the screen to the right, note the implementation of the account history module from www.SandShot.net.

One of the options available to Bikestation members is to purchase daily usage. Each time the member uses Bikestation, a record of their usage is captured by automated systems at the Bikestation locations. Members may at any time log in to their account and observe the current status of their accounts, purchase additional usage, renew their annual membership fee, and so on.

Member Administration Tool Suite In order to allow management of member account data, an extensive suite of tools were provided. Pictured here is the main search tool that allows Bikestation staff to locate or browse member records. From this display, one may click on icons which point to additional functions such as displaying a member record, editing a member record, displaying invoice history and "daily usage" administration.

Daily Usage Administration The ultimate goal is to integrate the automated keycard identification system to Bikestation's web database. As an interim step, and for later manual maintenance, a tool was developed to allow Bikestation administrative staff to input such transactions. Working from a printed listing of usage transactions, this tool has been designed around a set of business rules which allow quick and accurate transaction entry.